Lena Riabinina
@lenariab.bsky.social
Bees, flies, mosquitoes, neurons, ecology and genetics. @Lena_Riab on Twitter. Associate Professor at Durham Biology in the UK. Head of @InsectNeuroLab.bsky.social 👩🔬👩💻🤦♀️🤷♀️🤯🦟🪰🐝👁️👄🧠👃🥀🌻🌸🏖️🌊
🚨 Excited to share our new paper published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! 🦟 🏊 Here, we compared the surface swimming behaviour of 11 mosquito species across three major disease-vector genera and found clear, genus-specific differences in how they move! 📄 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods. Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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We have a fully-funded PhD project on mosquito behaviour and AI, based at @durham.ac.uk and supervised by Amir Atapour Abarghouei (Durham Computer Science), @viveknityananda.bsky.social and myself. Check the project description here tinyurl.com/2hven83a and apply here: www.needl.org.uk/apply/.
Novel behavioural assays to study mosquito pheromone signalling at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Novel behavioural assays to study mosquito pheromone signalling at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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🚨 Postdoc openings! We’re looking for postdocs excited about sleep, synapses & cellular neurophysiology (fly or mouse). Yes, we also have mouse projects! See details: www.flysleeplab.com/positions
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Please drop me a line is you are interested to work in my lab and are eligible for the CSC funding!
InsectNeuroLab@insectneurolab.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe are looking for candidates interested in (and eligible for) CSC-funded PhD positions, for the project " AI-powered system to monitor biodiversity and study behaviour of key wild pollinators" www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please contact Lena by email for informal enquiries.
New #PhD ad alert! Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England? Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
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Very happy to see our first paper on Black Soldier Flies out! A chemically defined oviposition attractant and repellent of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens) doi.org/10.1163/2352... This was a Master project of amazing Nyasha Thomas, who set up the BSF work in the lab.
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
Massive congratulations to Matthew Quinn for passing his PhD viva today!! And many thanks to the examiners @ebablab.bsky.social and Sean Twiss. Matt is the first student to graduate from the lab - very exciting! 👨🎓🎓📖🦟🦟
I'm thrilled to announce that I've started a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at @insectneurolab.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social this week, working with @lenariab.bsky.social on behavioural and physiological adaptations in mosquito pupae. In summary, I'll be working on 🦟🚱🦟👁️👃➡️💧?
Please spread the word - 2 new PhD positions, one fully funded and one self-funded, with us at Durham and @clarahowcroft.bsky.social at Northumbria Uni! We are looking for people with interdisciplinary experience (biology, computer vision, engineering) and interest to work across disciplines.
InsectNeuroLab@insectneurolab.bsky.social · last yr.Please re-post: We have 2 new PhD positions on insect behaviour. We are looking for people with interests and expertise in development of behavioural assays, working with insects, computer vision, image processing and data analysis, and previous research experience. Please email us to discuss! 🦟💻🐝
Folks looking for a PhD position to study chemical ecology, have a look at this excellent opportunity at the University of Eastern Finland. Application deadline 6 Feb. Position starting in March 2025. uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral Researcher (PhD student), Chemical Ecology
The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for a Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) position in Chemical Ecology at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, on Kuopio ca
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@NatGeo just published an article about mound-building Formica wood ants, featuring a series of spectacular photographs by Ingo Arndt: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... Here is Ingo’s winning wood ant photo from @NHM_WPY last year:
We have competitively funded PhD projects on bees, mosquitoes,robotics and computer vision. Would suit candidates with interdisciplinary expertise. Please email us with your CV and Motivation letter by the 22nd of January.
InsectNeuroLab@insectneurolab.bsky.social · 2y agoExciting news! We are advertising 2 more PhD projects in our and a collaborator's labs - please get in touch *by the 22nd of January 2025* with your *CV and a Cover/Motivation letter*: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Looking for a keen PhD student to investigate how experience shapes the brain, and/or mechanisms of central nervous system regeneration, plasticity and degeneration. Apply here: select "Biosciences", then my projects. Fully funded. Deadline 12 January. www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/act...
Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership
Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership
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Today we received an email from Durham Uni, signed as below ("Gold Command"). I wish to believe this person's account was hacked, but something tells me it wasn't. Do other Universities also come up with this bizzarreness?
Could anyone please "sponsor" me for the SfN membership? I'd need to know your name and membership ID, please. Thank you!
In the spirit of this post - I've got a book out in India about why overconfidence persists and what it's doing to the world. You might be interested in giving it a read. I've got my first book event today (eep!) - come along if you're in Bangalore. Authors- any advice on what to expect?
Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2y agoNot quite the same thing, but I have been told over and over by other authors that if you think you’re talking too much online about your book, you are probably way under-talking it, and you likely have many followers who still do not know you wrote a book People are busy, you gotta repeat things
A map made in ...Excel. This is the first one for me! @drosostalis.bsky.social I think you are personally responsible for this one 🤣
Science is hard and the progress is slow and often hard to register. So it's nice to have some fast and easy progress elsewhere :P Happy New Year everyone!
How do overconfidence and politics interact? Read here for a short version of the chapter from my book on overconfidence: scroll.in/article/1077... #BeyondDoubt #Overconfidence Book available in India: amazon.in/Beyond-Doubt...
How do overconfident politicians hurt their country’s people? A behavioural scientist finds out
Vivek Nityananda is the author of ‘Beyond Doubt: Overconfidence and What It Means for Modern Society’.
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UK students - still time to apply for this project! Please send me your enquiries by the 31st December. 🐝🧠
InsectNeuroLab@insectneurolab.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are advertising a funded PhD project to work on bumblebees and their brains! If you are a non-UK applicant, please get in touch with me by the **6th of December** with your CV and Cover/Motivation letter. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
We're hiring! Please share! Exciting opportunities for #PhD students, #postdocs, and #research assistants to join our team in exploring how the brain prioritizes actions in conflict. #Neuroscience #Drosophila Interested? Reach out! rezavallab.org
We are searching for an Assoc. Professor in Plant Ecology! Join us at the Plant Ecology and Evolution program @UU_University in beautiful Sweden. We are looking for a highly motivated and friendly colleague with complementary expertise to us. Apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
🌟We are looking for a new member of our image analysis team at the Imaging Core Facility of the Biozentrum in Basel 🌟 Are you passionate about science and technology? Are you interested in bioimaging? Please check the job ad below #JobOpportunity #ImageAnalysis #DeepLearning @biozentrum.bsky.social
Biozentrum, University of Basel@biozentrum.unibas.ch · 2y agoEntry-level position (80 - 100%) for bioimage analysis specialist at the Imaging Core Facility (IMCF) of the Biozentrum, University of Basel www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... @unibas.ch #Biozentrum #Basel #research #science #joboffer #scientific
Interesting that the issues faced by ecologists at universities in the UK are very similar to Aotearoa NZ #theniche @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
as seen elsewhere... Visual Neuro Course in Woods Hole!!
These stats may create an impression that all native speakers understand papers well, write well and give good presentations. In my experience, none of this is true, and more often than not native speakers don't write well at all, and it's probably too late for them to learn, as it takes time.
ASAB@asab.org · 2y agoFinal plenary by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social concerning the language barriers in science. The hurdles for non-native English speakers are significant! #ASABWinter2024 Also, our congratulations to Tatsuya for winning the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Equality and Diversity Champion award this week!
2 new interdisciplinary PhD projects on Insects, Robots and Computer Vision! Please re-post and email us with your CVs, Cover/Motivation letters and enquiries by the *22nd of January 2025* 🐝🦟🤖💻
InsectNeuroLab@insectneurolab.bsky.social · 2y agoExciting news! We are advertising 2 more PhD projects in our and a collaborator's labs - please get in touch *by the 22nd of January 2025* with your *CV and a Cover/Motivation letter*: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
